Throughout the year on hillsides, in by-ways, and forests of Glendalough and wider Wicklow you will find Glendalough Distillery’s full-time forager, Geraldine Kavanagh, busily searching out the freshest botanicals for their gins. Last week a team from O’Briens were lucky enough to tag along on one such trip in to the Wicklow Mountains.
At first, we are confronted with a wash of gree...
We have loads of great gins on promotion in The Great Gin Sale. Last week I took a look at some great new gins from across the water. This week I'm turning to some Irish gins that have quickly become classics on our shelves. With so many on offer it can be hard to choose. So here is just a small pick of great Irish gins released over the last couple of years, you may just have miss...
What’s this? The ever popular Mór Irish gin in a brand new celebratory wrapper!
To celebrate Pride week, Mór have launched a special edition bottle of their excellent gin, Mór Pride Gin. A portion of the sale of each bottle is also being donated to the voluntary organisation Gay Community News (GCN) with Mór gin matching each donation.
It is a small run of 1,000 bottles. ...
I am delighted to announce that we will have another of our Gin sales. Starting this Wednesday 12th of July and running until the 7th of August we will have over 30 gins on offer across our stores. Regular readers of this blog will know that I love discovering new gins that deliver new flavour experiences. It’s also great to be able to champion Irish producers and products, so what ...
The terms craft and small batch sometimes get bandied about but these are terms that hold true when discussing Irelands growing gin industry. Independent people working hard to produce great tasting spirits each small batch at a time. People who are passionate about their craft and their product. One such gin is Bonac 24.
The gin is produced by Gavin Clifford and his father M...
Three new Irish gins!
We are constantly on the lookout for great new craft spirits and our search has lead us to three new Irish graft gins in time for Christmas. So, forget about ‘three French hens’ and pick up one of these for the gin lover in your life, or treat yourself.
The Mór signature serve
Our first gin, Mór, is a fruity and floral gin produced in ...
In a converted cattle shed in the farmyard of Ballyvolane House, County Cork, you will find school friends Justin Green and Antony Jackson producing a unique craft gin.
Grain is the base ingredient for most spirits however Berthas Revenge is made from whey alcohol. In cheese making, milk is separated into curds and whey. The curds are used to make the cheese and the whey is tra...
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